"Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies."

-- Gerald Brenan

#Class Quotes #People Quotes #Special Quotes

“To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.”
“Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.”
“When I teach seminars, I tell people, Your stuff has to look like something thats out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.”
“The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.”

Source : "Outtakes from Leighton Meester's February Cover Shoot". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2011.
“Weapons are less harmful than words.”

Source : "The Reformist as Pacifist". Interview with Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. May 16, 2013.
“Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.40, Pan Macmillan
“Today, we see ISIS dwindling. We see that terrorist organization, with all their bravado, losing their territory and going back from a proto-state to an underground terrorist organization.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.”

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